Gah, I just had an epiphany of Daz's intention....

It's just another way of choking the Poser vine at the base.

Theory: even if Daz was selling a lot of things that were for Poser (eg Stonemason's products), they could take the loss from the reduced income at the moment, and balance that with increased future income after they have removed Poser from the market. 

At the moment Poser is a Daz studio's 'only' competitor (apart from Carrara) in that they traditionally over lap in the same commercial fields.

Poser products being reasonably cheap keep Daz's product prices slightly in check. 

Of course the fact that Gen 3 being 'incompatible' with Poser , and Gen 2 being a pita to use with Poser (from all reports) supports the idea of squeezing poser out of business.

And it looks like Carrara could be collateral damage.

 

Just a theory...... lots of holes in it maybe...